Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NJ (INC)

Amount

$38,000.00

Award Date

9/16/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

In the parent grant, we propose to develop a system where retinal neural circuits can be reproducibly designed on microelectronic arrays. Our project relies on optical tweezers, which we have used in a novel way to micromanipulate neurons isolated from ve